Song Quotes · Page 130

By the grace of God, I'm the only person in my family with any musical ability.

— Jordan Fisher

It is really hard to write something high-energy and upbeat on acoustic guitar.

— Lights

I've been taking tabla lessons and they've helped expand my rhythmic horizons.

— Danny Carey

“I wrote a song for every day we didn'T talk”

— Nikki Godwin

I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.

— Bob Mould

And suddenly sad songs aren't sad enough.

— Lynn

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

— Daniel Johns

Music - it's motivational and just makes you relax.

— Taika Waititi

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought…

— Sarah Vowell

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

— Trace Adkins

Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of…

— Rick Astley

I like to think that I probably have written more World War II music than anyone on the planet after all the…

— Michael Giacchino

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

— Eminem

From the first album, we've had songs like 'The Jack' that are blues based. We also did it in 'Ride On,' where…

— Angus Young

In my own career, I used to do a Sinatra medley in every show, or at least sing one of his songs.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather…

— Amos Lee

“If radios and microwaves merged, then the ideal pop song would be three minutes, or the length of time a bag of…

— Jarod Kintz

"Straight Edge" was a song about my life. There was no structure, no premise as if I was forming a club. There…

— Ian MacKaye

I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My…

— Emily Haines

I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV…

— Marilyn Manson

With Free, we had phased out all of the blues material and wanted to phase in all original material, and the only…

— Paul Rodgers

I think one of the reasons [Nikolai] Medtner hasn't had a chance is that his music needs very, very committed performances. If…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

The process of creativity, absorbing aspects of life and channeling it into something shared or tangible - that's my ideal brain food.…

— Richard Norris

I force myself to care about the music end by wrestling with it for years.

— Dan Bejar

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

— Brian De Palma

People don't have fun making music all the time.

— Ken Hill

I like to sing along to Annie Lennox and pretend to be as sassy as her.

— Sophie Thompson

Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul...

— B.K.S. Iyengar

You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.

— Clarice Lispector

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

— Woody Allen

“Keep pace with the drummer you hear, however measured or far away.”

— Henry David Thoreau

I just love playing the piano, isn't it lovely?

— Laufey

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

— Billy Corgan

I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.

— Carole King

“Music pulls words from the heart and inspires brilliance.”

— Courtney Worth Young

Keeping a band together is more work than anybody will ever tell you.

— Mike Campbell

Sometimes the best music is when you just put it out there.

— Dreezy

I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.

— Ziggy Marley

There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music.

— Tim McGraw